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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From Schneier on Security
Friday Squid Blogging: New Squid Species
An ancient squid: New research on fossils has revealed that a vampire-like ancient squid haunted Earth’s oceans 165 million years ago. The study, published in June...
From insideHPC
Large Language Models: The Power and the Mystery
Large language models fit the classic model of a red-hot technology in an early stage of commercial viability: there’s more talk about it than knowledge, and FOMO...
From insideHPC
PINQ² to Operate IBM Quantum System One in Quebec
Bromont, Quebec, September 22, 2023 – The Platform for Digital and Quantum Innovation of Quebec (PINQ²), a non-profit organization (NPO) founded by the Ministry...
From insideHPC
Kao Data Appoints David Bloom Chairman
London, September 21st, 2023 – Kao Data, the specialist developer and operator of high-performance data centres for enterprise, cloud, HPC and AI, has appointed...
From insideHPC
Sandia Labs Researchers Win 6 R&D 100 Awards
Sandia researchers took home six R&D 100 Awards, one joint with Los Alamos National Laboratory, and one special award for 2023 in the annual international technical...
From Schneier on Security
New Revelations from the Snowden Documents
Jake Appelbaum’s PhD thesis contains several new revelations from the classified NSA documents provided to journalists by Edward Snowden. Nothing major, but a few...
From insideHPC
Terra Quantum and Honda Research Institute Europe Develop Quantum ML Method for Disaster Routing
St. Gallen, Munich and Frankfurt, Germany, September 21, 2023 – Quantum computing company Terra Quantum and Honda Research Institute Europe (HRI-EU), a center for...
From insideHPC
DOD Announces $238M CHIPS and Science Act Awards for Microelectronics Hubs
Washington, DC, Sept. 20, 2023 — The U.S. Department of Defense today announced the award of $238 million in CHIPS and Science Act funding for eight Microelectronics...
From Computational Complexity
We Must Be Doing Something Right
The Chicago Tribune ran an editorial Monday that started What’s the best four-year college in Illinois? Not the University of Chicago, Northwestern University or...
From insideHPC
VAST Data Names Marianne Budnik CMO
New York – September 20, 2023 – AI data platform company VAST Data has named Marianne Budnik chief marketing officer. She will lead all marketing functions including...
From ACM-W supporting, celebrating and advocating for Women in Computing
Introducing Stories From Our First Student Chapter Buddies!
ACM-W has started a new campaign. The aim of this campaign is to encourage all ACM-W chapters to partner with other ACM-W chapters to become a Buddy for collaborative...
From insideHPC
KAUST and Cerebras Named Gordon Bell Award Finalist
SUNNYVALE, Calif. and THUWAL, Saudi Arabia, Sept. 20, 2023 — Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and AI chip developer Cerebras...
From insideHPC
Air Force Research Lab Adds 12PFLOPS Penguin HPC System
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has announced the installation of a supercomputer built by Penguin Systems, named the Raider. The system delivers about...
From insideHPC
University of Maryland and IonQ Open Quantum Computing Research
COLLEGE PARK, MD – September 19, 2023 – The University of Maryland (UMD) today announced the opening of the National Quantum Laboratory (QLab), a quantum research...
From Schneier on Security
On the Cybersecurity Jobs Shortage
In April, Cybersecurity Ventures reported on extreme cybersecurity job shortage: Global cybersecurity job vacancies grew by 350 percent, from one million openings...
From insideHPC
Anyscale Teams With NVIDIA on LLM Performance
SAN FRANCISCO – Ray Summit – Sept. 18, 2023 – Anyscale, the AI infrastructure company built by the creators of the Ray open-source unified framework for scalable...
From insideHPC
TYAN Adopts New AMD EPYC 8004 Series Chips for Cloud and Edge Server Deployments
Newark, Calif. – September 18, 2023 – TYAN, a server platform design manufacturer and a subsidiary of MiTAC Computing Technology Corporation, announced availability...
From insideHPC
Linux Foundation: Unified Acceleration Foundation Formed for Open Accelerated Compute and Cross-Platform Performance
BILBAO, SPAIN – September 19, 2023 – Today, the Linux Foundation announced the formation of the Unified Acceleration (UXL) Foundation, a cross-industry group focused...
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog
NIST to Standardize Encryption Algorithms That Can Resist Attack by Quantum Computers
Last year, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) set out to create four new algorithms capable of withstanding an attack by quantum computers...
From insideHPC